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ICC India is looking for an ambitious and energetic project coordinator to join its team working as part of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (the Alliance). This is an opportunity to be part of an exciting international development initiative working to make trade across borders simpler, faster and more cost-effective, creating new business opportunities, enabling greater economic and social development and reducing poverty.

Leila Aridi Afas, @TheTradeLady, Director of International Public Policy at Toyota Motor North America shares her perspective on how public-private partnerships can pave the path to simpler trade.

Denmark has become the latest donor government of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (the Alliance), a public-private initiative aimed at making cross-border trade simpler, faster and more cost-effective.

Why is trade facilitation important for women and gender equality? Monity Odera, a publisher in Kenya shares her perspective.

In February, two years after the landmark ratification of the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement, Kenya’s Principal Secretary in the State Department of Trade, Dr. Chris Kiptoo, joined over 100 attendees from across government and business to discuss the country’s progress on implementing the agreement and how the private sector can help.

One of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation’s host organisations, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), requests proposals for consulting services for Framework Gap Assessment.

Customs clearing agents in Zambia are to be offered accredited training as part of a new trade facilitation project being launched today by the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (Alliance).

Based in Washington, DC USA, this Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation position would support Alliance operations and projects as part of the team at one of our host organisations, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). The Program Coordinator (PC) will be exposed to ongoing and in-development projects world-wide, performing as the connective tissue which aids in enabling successful partnership. Mentoring under one or more Program Officers, a successful PC candidate will be able to hone the skills needed to develop and administer programs and projects in their future. A significant degree of autonomy will be expected of the PC in supporting the needs of the office and its projects. Excellent analytical and time-management skills coupled with a proactive and solutions-focused mindset will be key to a candidate’s success.

La GIZ est un prestataire de services de coopération internationale actif au niveau mondial, présent au Maroc depuis 1975. Avec ses partenaires, elle met au point des solutions efficaces qui ouvrent des perspectives aux populations et améliorent durablement leurs conditions de vie. À son titre d’entreprise fédérale d’utilité publique, la GIZ soutient beaucoup de secteurs et un grand nombre de clients nationaux et internationaux dans la mise en œuvre de leur coopération bilatérale, régionale et internationale.

The Global Alliance is conducting an open tender for procuring an Individual Consultant or Consultancy Firm to conduct face-to-face interviews with enterprises in Tunis, Tunisia aiming to capture the total transport and logistics costs (TTLC) along the supply chain. The deadline for applications is February 23, 2019.

Earlier this year we celebrated the first anniversary of the entry into force of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). At the time I challenged the private sector to take a more active role in delivering vital trade facilitation reforms. As we near the end of the year, I am happy to see our private sector partners stepping up and increasingly willing to engage and participate actively alongside governments. Together we are creating solutions to make trade faster, simpler and cheaper.

One of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation’s host organisations, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), requests proposals for a holistic Business Process Reengineering exercise.

African countries seeking to reduce the cost, time and complexity of inter-regional and international trade in goods and services will gather for the First African Forum for National Trade Facilitation Committees in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 27–29 November.

One of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation’s host organisations, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), requests proposals for the role of Country Representative – Vietnam.